Thirty nine asylum seekers who are thought to be children have been housed on a former military based designed for adults, The i Paper can reveal. An estimated 700 asylum seekers are currently ...

"That has inevitably meant difficult choices elsewhere in the short term, including increasing capacity at Wethersfield." In September, the Home Office announced that RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire ...

More than 70 refugee charities and human rights organisations have called on Yvette Cooper to shut a “prison-like” former RAF base housing asylum seekers in Essex. Just weeks after the High ...

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The Prime Minister has refused to put a date on when an asylum centre at a former RAF station in Essex will close. During the general election campaign Sir Keir Starmer said MDP Wethersfield ...

And following the closure of the Bibby Stockholm barge, as well as the announced closure date of the RAF Napier asylum camp, the coalition of organisations called the continuation of Wethersfield ...